Ivan Radoev(1927-1994)

Ivan Radoev was born on March 30, 1927 in Pordim, Bulgaria. Ivan Dashev Radoev was a Bulgarian playwright, poet and journalist. He is a winner of an Award for Lifetime achievement, awarded by the International Academy of Arts in Paris . He graduated from high school in Pleven . In 1945 he became member of the Workers' Youth League . Participate in the construction of Hainboaz during the brigade movement . He studied law (1947 - 1949) and Bulgarian philology (1949 - 1951) in Sofia State University . He was an editor in "Gadfly", in "Our wings" magazine, in newspaper "Bulgarian soldier." He was a playwright at the National Opera in Sofia (1963 - 1968), editor at Bulgarian National Television , a playwright in Theatres " Tears and Laughter " (1970 - 1972) , "Sofia" (1972 - 1986), and Pernik Theater (1986 - 1990) . In the late 40th Radoev was the author of the first cycle of love, printed after so-called "socialist revolution". These verses prompted a vigorous discussion. Pure teen romantically tinged lyricism was adopted by the regulatory criticism as "sexually-bourgeois", "erotic," "vicious," "decadent." Gradually accusations of "sabotage", the lack of "ideological health" are transferred to the private life of the poet. He was forced to leave Sofia and settling in Sliven and Burgas . Radoev is one of the founders of the so-called "Lyrical drama" in the second half of the 50th . In small plays "Judo", "Petrol", "Romeo and Juliet," "Mozart" (1986) for the first time in Bulgarian drama is presented youth disagreements and escapes that are the reason for stopping performances. On his name is called Dramatic Theatre "Ivan Radoev" in Pleven and street "Ivan Radoev" in the neighborhood of Sofia, near the New Bulgarian University . Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Pleven and Dramatic Theatre "Ivan Radoev", Pleven organized every year the National Competition "Ivan Radoev" for Bulgarian drama.